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To: tejek who wrote (258515)	11/7/2005 3:54:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570734

Re: How's the Turkish arrondissement in Berlin doing? Germany's Turkish minority is another kettle of fish.... Again, keep in mind my "leninist parallel": back in the 1900s, Lenin and his fellow Communist theoreticians expected the proletarian revolution to break out in the MOST ADVANCED capitalist country because that's where proletarians' frustrations ought to be strongest. But the frustrations themselves are merely the result of exaggerated expectations.... Likewise, (North-)African/Turkish minorities living in Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Scandinavia nurse much lower expectations than their fellows in France. Part of the reason is that all of France's Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Senegalese, Malians, etc. are fluent in French --unlike Sweden or the Netherlands where you find immigrants who, after 10, 15 or even 20 years living in the country, can't utter a correct sentence in the local idiom.... Furthermore, France shows a skewed pattern of integration: she boasts several immigrant celebrities in literature, sports, pop music yet French corporations remain lily-white redoubts. The quick fix of tokenism is coming to grief.... Gus